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• Aragon was raised as an elf?

  badlands > August 2nd, 2010, 11:45 PM

  Wouldn't it be very hard for someone to rule a group of people whose culture and law might be different from what he was raised as? Aragon was raised as an elf and so was his bride. They wouldn't know the first thing about being a human king or human. It would be culture shock unless they were taught something about it beforehand.:bla:

• Aragon was raised as an elf?

  Michael > August 3rd, 2010, 12:33 AM

  But Aragorn had lived among Men for many decades before he became King of Arnor and Gondor, and Arwen would still have been guided by the wisdom in her heart.
  
  Nonetheless, I am sure Tolkien envisioned some sort of "culture shock" for both upon their emergence from the Elven cultures of Rivendell and Lothlorien.

• Aragon was raised as an elf?

  Alvin Eriol > August 3rd, 2010, 07:42 PM

  While Aragorn was fostered by Elrond, he still had his mother, and other Dunedain of the North now & then, as "role models." He probably visited his people, and were visited by them in Rivendell at times.
  
  I just fail to see being raised by elves, Elrond in particular, as necessarily a drawback. I would submit he would in fact know "the first thing" even if he was vague on details (which he wasn't). Who do you suppose taught Aragorn "Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Men and another among Elves and Dwarves." Morality is morality. :book:
  
  And, as Michael points out, he polished off his education by serving the King of Rohan and the Steward of Gondor incognito. I don't think he missed much by the time he rejoined the Rangers of Arnor of whom he was chieftain.

• Aragon was raised as an elf?

  Mordomin > August 3rd, 2010, 08:48 PM

  I would just like to insert the irrelevant, because it is non-canonical, "fact" that Aragorn, or as he was called then "Estel" was taught by Mordomin. But even so, he was often away from Rivendell, with the sons of Elrond and the Dunedain. And this before he was aged 20, before his name and lineage were revealed to him.
  
  My point being that Aragorn's sense of right and wrong was formed at a very early age, and was not based upon the law-books of one culture or the other.
  
  As incredibly ironic as it may seem, I think that Mordomin would have insisted that "Estel" be well-read. His reading would have consisted of whatever there was currently available at the Last Homely House.
  
  But of course, the journeys of Aragron into Rohan and Gondor also formed a substantial part of his character.
  
  I shall always love his days as "Thorongil" and the stories that my friends have written about him during that time.

• Aragon was raised as an elf?

  RobRoy > August 4th, 2010, 10:06 AM
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